Anaheim Chili
Late: particularly adapted to culture in the South. Popular in home and market gardens and grown on commercial scale for drying and canning. Fruits 6 to 8 inches long, about and inch through; tapered; deep green becoming rich scarlet; mildly pungent.
California Wonder
This new variety resembles Chinese Giant in shape, but has much thicker flesh. The fruit will average 4 inches in diameter at the top, tapering slightly. It matures its fruit somewhat earlier than Chinese Giant and is very prolific. Color glossy dark green, turning to crimson.
Chinese Giant
The largest and finest of mild red pepper grown. The plants are vigorous and stocky in growth, well branched, and thickly set with enormous fruits. It is early to ripen, and immensely productive. The fruits are of thick and blocky form, and most brilliant, glossy scarlet. The flesh is thick and very mild and as sweet as an apple, the green peppers making excellent salad, sliced and served like tomatoes. It is one of the best and most salable varieties in our market, either green or after it ripens.
Florida Giant Pepper
75 days. Diameter at stem 3 ½ to 4 inches. Length 4 to 4 ½ inches. Fruits 4 lobed, upright, smooth, uniform; color bright crimson. Flesh thick, sweet and mild. An outstanding variety for market garden and shipping.
Harris Early Giant
This is most admirable sort especially adapted to Northern growing because of its early maturity. The peppers are larger than any other early sort, 3 ½ inches in diameter and 4 ½ inches long, while from 6 to 10 are produced on one plant. For unripe picking they are medium dark green and in maturity are bright red. The flesh is moderately thick and of excellent quality. It is a choice home garden sort.
Hungarian Yellow Wax
A first early, hot sort, valuable for market gardeners and canner. Plants dwarf and prolific. Fruits medium slender, tapering, smooth and very pungent. Color waxy yellow changing to bright crimson at maturity. Length 5 ½ to 6 ½ inches; diameter 6 inches; ready to pick about 65 days after planting.
Large Bell or Bull Nose
An old standard and favorite sort. It is early, bright red in color at maturity entirely mild, of large size, and has thick flesh. It is excellent for stuffing. It is a good bearer, and is much grown for both home and market.
Long Red Cayenne
The conical shaped fruits are 3 to 4 inches long, of bright red color, and borne in great profusion. The flesh in character is very sharp and pungent. A standard household variety of Pepper.
Pimiento Pepper
It grows unusually large and is fiery red, and is as sweet as an apple. You will probably recognize this pepper by the canned Pimiento Peppers, which are imported into this country from Spain.
Red Chili
Smaller and later than Cayenne. Extensively used for pepper sauce. Sharp flavor. A excellent sort.
Ruby Giant
Ruby Giant is a cross of the two famous Burpee varieties, Ruby King and Chinese Giant. It combines the wonderful size and vigorous growth of the Chinese Giant with the earliness and hardiness of Ruby King. The fruits are of enormous size, with a brilliant scarlet skin. The flesh is deep scarlet, thick, sweet, and always mild. Ruby Giant is an excellent market and home-garden variety because of its earliness and tremendous yield.
Sunnybrook
(Tomato or Squash). Odd type, shaped like a tomato and used for canning and pickling. Plant 30 inches tall, erect and fairly productive. Fruit 2 ½ inches long and 3 inches in diameter. Color glossy green, changing to deep red at maturity.
Sweet Mountain
Somewhat larger and milder in flavor than Bull Nose pepper, but otherwise corresponds closely to that sort. Its color is green turning to red, and it is productive and desirable.
Worldbeater
One of the very best of the large peppers, being a cross between Chinese Giant and Ruby King, having the longer form and earliness of the latter with the size of the former. Fruits 4 lobed, 5 inches long by 3 ½ inches in diameter; flesh very thick and mild; exceedingly productive and a good shipper.